Murder of JonBenét Ramsey

"A Killer on the Loose"

John and Patsy Ramsey on TV

One of the questions raised during the interview was: "Do you believe that someone outside your home killed JonBenet?"

Patsy answered in a tearful voice: "There is a killer on the loose, I don't know who it is, I don't know if it's a he or a she — but if I were a resident of Boulder I would tell my friends to keep their babies close to you."

Rather than explain their point of view, the broadcast only served to bolster the theory that the Ramseys were pretending and would rather talk on television than talk to the police.

The next day, Mayor Leslie Durgan gave a press conference to reject Patsy's claim, stating: "People in Boulder have no need to fear that there is someone wandering the streets of Boulder, as has been portrayed by some people, looking for young children to attack. Boulder is safe, it's always been a safe community and it continues to be a safe community."

The Ramseys were outraged. They simply couldn't understand why someone such as Mayor Durgan would say such things publicly when it was obvious to them that JonBenet's killer was still out there. Sadly, they were yet to realize that Durgan's comments were indicative of the opinions of the police and a large percentage of the general public who believed that John and Patsy were solely responsible for the death of their daughter.

During a 1997 interview, Durgan explained her reasons for making the announcement: "It was done in large part to allay the fears of children in our community and to let people know that the information that I had at that time was that we did not have some crazed person wandering the streets of University Hill."

When asked by the interviewer where she had gotten her information from, she replied, "The police chief."

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1. Exposure
2. Suspicion
   Mounts
3. The Media Evidence
4. Personal Attack
5. "A Killer on the Loose"
6. Serious Allegations
7. John did it!
8. No Wait, Patsy did it!
9. Who Did It?
10. Someone
    Outside the House
11. Time of Death
12. A Continuing Saga
13. The Death of Innocence
14. The Case Goes Cold
15. Fighting Back
16. Fighting Back
    — the Deposition
17. Fighting Back
    — the Police
18. A Possible Witness
19. The Intruder Theory
20. A Stun Gun
21. The Book
22. The Book II
23. Still Under Suspicion
24. The Other Book
25. A Startling Revelation
26. Testing Time
27. The Ramseys Pass
28. The Media Circus
29. The Interviews
30. Put Up or
    Shut Up
31. The Confession
32. A Blocking Move
33. Smit's Investigative Analysis
34. Vindications
    At Last
35. The DNA Evidence
36. **New Chapter:
    John Mark Karr
37. **New Chapter:
    Hasty Investigation
38. Bibliography